All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
and all your faithful shall bless you.
They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and tell of your power,
to make known to all people your mighty deeds
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
—Psalm 145:10–12 NRSV

The Responsorial Psalm for the feast of St. Luke (October 18) is taken from Psalm 145.
Whenever we pray this text together as a church, I always perk up—because this is what writers, creatives, and evangelizers do!
Through our words and images, and even more, please God, through our very lives we are called to “make known the glorious splendor” of God’s presence and action in this world.
So, for all my fellow evangelizers in the communications media, as you spend time on your craft, whether that is writing or editing or playing with colors, music or spoken word, may God bless your work. May it show forth God’s grandeur.
God bless you.
#writetosharechrist #amwriting #creatives #evangelization #communication #medianuns #DailyMass #StLuke #SaintLuke #saintsforcommunicators

Jesus: "Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”

James & John: “We can.”

Mrs. Z: Yesssss!

Me: Yo, guys, I'd think twice before I signed that dotted line!

Jesus: 😉 They'll figure it out eventually.

Today's Gospel from #Matthew20 always makes me wonder whether it was the ambitious mother who wanted to see her two sons at the top of the food chain; or was it the two brothers who talked their mother into pleading their cause (since Jesus had a track record for listening to the pleas of women)?
Anyhow, these two guys have no clue what they're getting into...
Says the sister who took vows months before she reached the legal drinking age. Sure, I knew what I was getting into.. and no, I had no clue AT ALL.
My takeaway: Yes, it is dangerous to get messed up with Jesus—a very good kind of dangerous.
#Lent #DailyMass

If you, O Lord, mark iniquities,
Lord, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness,
that you may be revered.
#Psalm130

#DailyMass
#ResponsorialPsalm
#Lent

“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
#Luke9 #DailyMass

Suffering in its myriad forms is just part of life. You can try to deal w it on your own, or you can rage against the darkness—but where does that get you or anyone around you?
Or you can pick up your cross, unite the pain to Jesus’ wounds and so be enfolded in the mystery of his passion-death-resurrection, for, “whoever loses his life for my sake will save it” (Luke 9).
#Lent

“Even now, says the Lord,
Return to me with your whole heart”
#Joel2 #DailyMass #AshWednesday

Even now—at this specific time, in these specific circumstances, whatever they may be.
Return to me—return to the deepest truth about yourself who are fashioned in the image & likeness of God.
W your whole heart—because God is the deep down source of being & without God, our hearts are not whole.

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” #StAugustine

“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.”
#Mark8 #DailyMass

It is as though the liturgy is putting a shot across the bow to remind us that #Lent is coming.